13 Mar 2020, 7:08 pm
IsabellaLinton wrote:
It's interesting to see the NT world in a tailspin because they might have to act autistic for a while. They might need to experience social anxiety, sensory phobias (touch), and heaven forbid stay home for a couple of weeks. Not to downplay the serious reasons behind this, but most autistic people have lived in quasi-lockdown mode for most of their adult lives by making choices to protect their personal space. We've recommended work-from-home programs for decades but for the most part, this idea was rejected and we were given antidepressants so we'd want to rejoin the "real world". Now that the world-at-large is thinking like we do, they're also taking credit for the revelations. It's very frustrating to me in that regard.
Indeed it would be nice if the current crisis could have the longterm effect of a drastic increase in the number of work-from-home job opportunities. Not all businesses can run that way, but many probably can.
It would also be nice if there could end up being, longterm, less handshaking and other touchy-feeliness between people who don't know each other well.
ASPartOfMe wrote:
The solution give NT's 25-40 hours a week of Applied Behavioral Analysis therapy to force them to mask their dangerous to themselves and others touchy-feely ways and shaking hands stims.
ROFL!
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Credits to author Cameron Bellm.
13 Mar 2020, 7:57 pm
ASPartOfMe wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
It's interesting to see the NT world in a tailspin because they might have to act autistic for a while. They might need to experience social anxiety, sensory phobias (touch), and heaven forbid stay home for a couple of weeks. Not to downplay the serious reasons behind this, but most autistic people have lived in quasi-lockdown mode for most of their adult lives by making choices to protect their personal space. We've recommended work-from-home programs for decades but for the most part, this idea was rejected and we were given antidepressants so we'd want to rejoin the "real world". Now that the world-at-large is thinking like we do, they're also taking credit for the revelations. It's very frustrating to me in that regard.
The solution give NT's 25-40 hours a week of Applied Behavioral Analysis therapy to force them to mask their dangerous to themselves and others touchy-feely ways and shaking hands stims.
So true.
I always buy in bulk.I despise shopping,never eat out, and discourage visitors.In a small town shopping means you always run into someone you know and they want to engage in small talk,or even worse,hug .
The coronavirus hasn’t disrupted my life in any significant way except I will use the drive thru at the pharmacy from now on and pay for gas at pump, not inside.Anything else I can order or pay online.
I’m praying for the continued health of the FedEx driver, and the mailman,
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13 Mar 2020, 8:29 pm
Joe90 wrote:
I don't hate Chinese people, I just hate China. That's where all this s**t originated from and now the whole f*****g world is suffering. I hear rumours that this virus was let out deliberately to cut down on the population, and if that's true then it's a stupid idea and also it's terrorism.
China, in particular, has an overpopulation problem.
Whether or not the coronavirus has been a deliberate strategy created, taking out what the hierarchy would consider a drain on their economy/society, it would please the psychopathic elements in their regime.
There have even been suggestings that parents were prevented from attending their disabled children, and as a consequence, those children died.
Communist China might be the New Nazi Germany, in terms of eugenics.
And personally speaking, I wouldn't put it passed them.
However,
What is in conflict with the broader theory, is the apparent "fact" that they have contained the situation now.
If they were truly serious in culling what they considered their "deadwood" from their society, they would have let it go unabated with only token action against it.
Their authoritarian methods, used to contain the situation, were extremely brutal but effective.
Also, considering the enormous damage the coronavirus has done, is doing and will continue to do to China's economy, I doubt that this event was deliberately self-inflicted.
In conclusion:
While I think the theory that China deliberately created a pandemic sounds super sexy, I can't see any logical/rational/valid argument supporting the concept.
Myth Busted, in my mind, in any case.
BTW, I don't have a problem with the Chinese people, either.
I have a problem with the CCP.
13 Mar 2020, 8:33 pm
Misslizard wrote:
My bio mom just called and all the stores in her area are now running out of some food stuffs.
Milk,bread,dry beans, pasta and meat are off the shelves,no toilet paper or paper towels.
Milk,bread,dry beans, pasta and meat are off the shelves,no toilet paper or paper towels.
OMFG!
I could deal with anything, anything, *except* not having toilet paper!! !
I am an Australian, after all.
Misslizard wrote:
I always buy in bulk.I despise shopping,never eat out, and discourage visitors.
I have found my perfect soul mate, <sigh>
Let us hook up, and make anti-social, hermitical rug rats together.
13 Mar 2020, 8:42 pm
IsabellaLinton wrote:
ASPartOfMe wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
It's interesting to see the NT world in a tailspin because they might have to act autistic for a while. They might need to experience social anxiety, sensory phobias (touch), and heaven forbid stay home for a couple of weeks. Not to downplay the serious reasons behind this, but most autistic people have lived in quasi-lockdown mode for most of their adult lives by making choices to protect their personal space. We've recommended work-from-home programs for decades but for the most part, this idea was rejected and we were given antidepressants so we'd want to rejoin the "real world". Now that the world-at-large is thinking like we do, they're also taking credit for the revelations. It's very frustrating to me in that regard.
The solution give NT's 25-40 hours a week of Applied Behavioral Analysis therapy to force them to mask their dangerous to themselves and others touchy-feely ways and shaking hands stims.
I'll sponsor that!
The ayes have it.
Motion carried.
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13 Mar 2020, 9:24 pm
Mona Pereth wrote:
Has Jason indicated that he personally knows Jack Ma?
I don't know Jack Ma. I hang around with some local Chinese families with autistic children. That's about the extent of my contact with Chinese people. China is a far away land to me, something like: "there is a land that I heard of once in a lullaby." I don't know, I've never felt a need for a cultural identity. English was my fourth language. I am not even sure I identify myself as a human, as this picture in my PhD thesis proves:
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